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The story of 'genius' Hāwera writer Ronald Hugh Morrieson 9 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 9 minutes to read All of Ronald Hugh Morrieson's novel have been made into films. Photo / Supplied Whanganui Chronicle By: Rolland McKellar The life of one of Hāwera's most famous sons is to be detailed in a soon-to-be completed book called Towering Talent. Its author Rolland McKellar writes about Ronald Hugh Morrieson, one of the country's most successful writers. "Hope I'm not one of those buggers famous when dead," one of Taranaki's most famous writers, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, once said. The comment w...

Ex-Unite activists on London buses call for defections to RMT: From the frying pan, into the frying pan London bus workers have experienced a toll of illness and death from COVID-19 up to three times greater than the national average. More than 60 bus workers are dead, with dozens more hospitalised or left struggling with long-COVID. Last April, confronted with a first wave of infections and deaths, anger erupted against the collusion of Unite the union with the bus companies, Transport for London (TfL) and its chairman, Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. “They are doing nothing to protect ...

Image: Jan Woolf and others Starmer’s plans to woo back working class voters ‘oop north’ through risible courtship rituals of PATriotism is misjudged, PATronising and insulting.  Had Jeremy Corbyn not slipped another EU referendum into the 2019 manifesto, he’d have won the election, despite the establishment’s press campaign and bogus anti-Semitism smears.   So before we hear about any more flag waving from Sir Kier… I revisit my essay, a work in progress…much like a country outside a neo-liberal block (spelling deliberate).  The National Question… …this business of our ...

Free from a tether. Arms around shoulders, our cuddles of tums, Our primary school fun day, our game of rough tumbling, Dumped inhibitions, it’s all up to us, No monitors mooching and making a fuss. End of term freedom, new sisters born, Bristling haircuts, spikily shorn, Sprawl balling of bodies’ in hullabaloo. No brakes to restrict us, we’re celebrating, Chartists’ votes counted, feels so liberating. Doing it our way, Cuddling pushes and tugs, We’re puzzles cracking Christmas in knotted arms and legs. One second we’re nestling, The next we’re all wrestling, And feigning cruel ...

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 14, 2020 - 12:11pm Note: The Icon posted these two photo in past Decembers, but they are worthy of a re-post. Dennis Morrison shared the photos originally with the Icon. It's December in downtown Bluffton in the early 1950s. There's Santa with a Santa Halloween mask stepping up to meet kids. In the next photo Bob Crow and Paul Steiner hold the PA system as Santa talks with kids. We're pretty certain that Al McCluer is Santa, and we are going to make a stab on the ID of the kids on the platform. On the far left, it looks like Dan Lehman, then Fran...